The Garden Island newspaper reports potential measures include prohibiting the feeding and sheltering of cats on county-owned or managed properties. Other proposals would strengthen current cat licensing laws and create a free, county-funded spay or neuter program.

An 11-member Feral Cat Task Force compiled the proposals. The group recommended that the island have zero feral, abandoned and stray cats by 2025.

Cats are a major threat to Kauai's native seabirds, whose populations are declining.Officials last week released video showing cats pulling a Newell's Shearwater and a Hawaiian Petrel out of burrows and killing the birds.